Butler fans react to a basket in the final moments of the game against Gonzaga at Hinkle Fieldhouse Saturday January 19, 2013. Butler won 64-63 on a last second shot by Roosevelt Jones.

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Mornings of rolling out of bed and buying tickets to a Butler game a few hours later are over. You could be too late.

You are too late for Saturday, for instance.

For a third successive Saturday, 10,000-seat Hinkle Fieldhouse is sold out, this time against Rhode Island. Butler will have at least five sellouts this season, which is believed to be unprecedented in the university's 121-year basketball history. By contrast, Butler had seven sellouts in the previous two decades combined. Games against St. Louis (Feb. 22) and Xavier (March 9) are also sellouts. ...